Use Multi-Touch gestures on your Mac

With a Multi-Touch trackpad or Magic Mouse, you can tap, swipe, pinch, or spread one or more fingers to perform useful actions.

Trackpad gestures

For more information about these gestures, choose Apple menu () > System Preferences, then click Trackpad. You can turn a gesture off, change the type of gesture, and learn which gestures work with your Mac.

App Exposé
Swipe down with four fingers3 to see all windows of the app you're using.

Swipe between full-screen apps
Swipe left or right with four fingers3 to move between desktops and full-screen apps.

Mouse gestures

For more information about these gestures, choose Apple menu () > System Preferences, then click Mouse. There you can turn a gesture off, change the type of gesture, and learn which gestures work with your Mac. Mouse gestures require a Magic Mouse.

Swipe between full-screen apps
Swipe left or right with two fingers to move between desktops and full-screen apps.

Swipe between pagesSwipe left or right with one finger to show the previous or next page.

1. You can turn off trackpad scrolling in Accessibility preferences: Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Accessibility. In the Mouse & Trackpad section, click Trackpad Options, then deselect the Scrolling checkbox.

2. Accessibility preferences also has options for one-finger dragging: Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Accessibility. In the Mouse & Trackpad section, click Trackpad Options. Select “Enable dragging,” then choose one of the "drag lock" options from the pop-up menu. Click the question-mark button to learn more about each option.

3. In some versions of macOS, this gesture uses three fingers instead of four.